WAU018 - Wauyai Maˈya - Morphosyntactic data

This dataset contains elicited morphosyntactic data from the Wauyai dialect of Maˈya with Pilipus Gimla (born 1955) and Daniel Gaman (born 1960), both native speakers of Wauyai Maˈya. The data includes checks on the animacy of 'sun', 'moon', and 'star'; checks on verb classes; subordinate clauses; the expression of instrumental functions; causative constructions; serial verb constructions; numeral classifiers; additional verbal subject-marking paradigms; and checks on inalienable possessive paradigms. The session was recorded on 25 February 2023, in Wauyai village (Waigeo island, Raja Ampat regency, Southwest Papua province, Indonesia). This dataset relates to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 'Synchronic and diachronic investigations in Raja Ampat-South Halmahera, a little-known subbranch of Austronesian' (PF19\100004); additional fieldwork funds were provided by a British Academy Small Grant (SG1920\100342). Further deposits are available in the related DataShare sub-community (https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573).